Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
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